Bible verse

Romans 7:1

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

Romans 7:1 · BSB

Romans 7:1 in context

The verses around it, from Romans 7.

1 Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

2 For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.

3 So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

4 Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

5 For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.

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Romans 7:1 in other translations

KJV

Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?

ASV

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men who know the law), that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

ERV

Or are ye ignorant, brethren (for I speak to men that know the law), how that the law hath dominion over a man for so long time as he liveth?

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